Nawabshah in Pakistan just saw the highest recorded temperature on Earth for April

Your MCU Cheat Sheet Before You Rush To Watch “Avengers Infinity War”

When it comes to food and restaurants, some of you folks have asked us to get on it & review them while the rest of you wanted us to just leave that to Zomato. Zomato is a juggernaut, I’ll give you that. But with the quality and quantity of restaurants and variety of food we consume every week, we thought ‘why not be the underdog story here?‘ and contribute what we can to the Foodies of the Universe!

There are certain ‘things’ everyone (including us) likes/dislikes about the food they have and the restaurants they have it at. There are plenty of opinions on every aspect of a place out there. We wish to “consolidate” all that along [...]

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Meet Google Neighbourly: An app for trusted community interactions in India

Google Neighbourly is a Q&A app that aims to facilitate local trusted communities in India to find answers to everyday questions about the locality, routine life and more.

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Recruit Holdings Buys Glassdoor for $1.2 Billion

Japanese human resources firm Recruit Holdings has just acquired popular job portal Glassdoor for a cool $1.2 Billion. Amidst struggles to find more funding, Glassdoor was brought by the same company that also owns rival portal "Indeed". Glassdoor was valued at $850 million.

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Google Duplex Demo – Who needs humans to make calls for appointments anymore?

Day 2 of Google I/O 2018 saw the public demo of Google Duplex, the newest evolution of the Google Assistant AI. CEO Sundar Pichai demoed a real phone call by the Assistant AI to a salon to book a haircut appointment which was so mindblowing that the AI sounded more real than some actual humans!

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New Zealand football embraces gender equality with equal pay for everyone

New Zealand Football takes a major leap towards gender equality in sports by announcing equal pay for all their female and male professional footballers representing the country internationally. This promises equal pay, promotional pref and best of all - flying business class for all international games.

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Google Pay is finally available on iOS devices and desktop web browsers

Google Pay, the unified payments service from Google, is now cross-platform. The formerly Android-only service has been rolled out to desktop web browsers and iOS devices. So if you see a "Buy with G Pay" button on your fav shopping site, it means that Google Pay is working everywhere.

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It’s World Password Day! Change your passwords. Especially Twitter’s.

World Password Day is here and it is time to evaluate all your security and privacy choices in life. Be it Twitter's unintentional bug which revealed user passwords or Nutella's unlikely involvement in password suggestions, this day should serve as a reminder that you should "Change your passwords!"

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Nawabshah in Pakistan just saw the highest recorded temperature on Earth for April

The city of Nawabshah in southern Pakistan recorded a temperature of 50.2 Celsius, which is quite possibly the highest temperature ever measured on Earth in the summer month of April. As a heat dome currently covers the Indian subcontinent, death tolls are already in double digits.

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Your MCU Cheat Sheet Before You Rush To Watch “Avengers Infinity War”

So Marvel’s Avengers Infinity War is finally releasing this week. There have been a lot of articles speculating who’s going to die (my bet’s on Iron Man), where the sixth infinity stone is (again my bet, Heimdall) and articles breaking down each and every second of the trailers that Marvel so playfully puts out. While all these are food for thought for those who’ve watched all the movies so far, I know there are some of you who haven’t watched ALL the movies (case in point, my roommate). While she has watched a few movies, she has completely skipped some and in all honesty, doesn’t remember much except the main plot points of those she has watched.

So I wanted to put pen to [...]

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Amazon sets its sight on growing its grocery business in India over the next 5 years

Head of Amazon India, Amit Agarwal, expressed the company's belief that Amazon will grow its grocery and daily needs business in India exponential over the next 5 years. A keen eye will be key for Amazon to gain a foothold in the Indian grocery business currently dominated by Big Basket.

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Facebook Wants to Resist the Spread of Fake News in India using Fact Checkers

Amidst data-leak, privacy, and false information issues its facing worldwide, Facebook has partnered with BOOM, a Mumbai-based fact-checking organization, to tackle the spread of "Fake News" in India ahead of the Karnataka State Assembly Elections of 2018.

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Large-scale Evacuation in Central Berlin As Recently Unearthed WWII Bomb Is Being Disposed Of

Massive evacuation in Central Berlin as an unexploded 500kg WWII bomb was discovered near the central railway station. Disruption of public and private transport services across the city is expected as Berlin Police bomb disposal squads work to resolve the situation.